Be well. And thanks. Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)
I almost moved to VT. Please write, post, vlog, blog, and everything you might, mightily. Lesbians helped me so much when my husband declared he was a woman, deserving "mother" status on forms at all times. My lesbian friends, way back in 1995, told me, "No, you do not qualify as a lesbian and he does not either. Thanks. Ute Heggen
Because only the 'conservative media' covers these stories, our concerns have taken on a "severe right leaning narrative" instead of being a human rights issue that applies to everyone.
Yep! Blaming Thatcher is the comeback of someone who has no clue what's going on in 2022. As is shaming "the right" as a whole entity. It's just a crowd pleaser, in my opinion, like a comedian doing an old gag for a cheap laugh.
I showed my friend the Mermaids Barbie/G.I Joe spectrum and I said if *I* said to her that feminine boys are really girls and masculine girls are really boys, she'd give me a seriously hard time for sexism and bigotry. But coming from the left, it's worthy of respect. In fact, it's forward-thinking.
It really does intrigue me how the left will eventually justify the erasure of women's/LGB rights and the harm done to children by this movement.
Women are garbage to these Social Justice Warriors. Blocking a disabled woman like that... It's despicable! Why would any decent man want to undress her and touch her? Of course, we all know by now that very few TiM's ARE decent men.
I think the trans movement will hit disabled women the hardest. Oh wait, and female prisoners, and gay and autistic kids. I could go on! Just so many casualties...
This is why genderologists claim they are 'most vulnerable' so they can obscure the needs of those who are vulnerable. And anyone putting up any defence, refutation or barrier to their desires is a bully.
Agreed! When will people get it? Surely them calling a disabled woman transphobic for wanting female care will peak people. It would, except only people in our circles will hear about it. So frustrating that the mainstream media won't touch it with a bargepole. It doesn't represent ordinary people.
I’m not a fan generally of the Daily Mail as gender criticality aside my politics are the polar opposite, but surely they are one of the few news outlets currently brave enough in either Ireland or the UK to scream this story to high heavens, as it needs to be?!
Absolutely! I have a lot of renewed respect for the right leaning press. The Daily Mail and The Times have been good on these issues. The Telegraph too. And there's a lot of rubbish too but I can weed out a lot of that. I can use this thing called discernment...
And GB News, a right wing news channel? Only if your definition of a right wing news channel is one that platforms left-leaning people to speak all the flippin' time - and then ACTUALLY lets them speak, without scorn. I think people who won't touch these sources with a bargepole need to get over themselves, and pronto! I'm sick and tired of people in their smug little echochambers. Declaring to be on the woke left right now? Not the left as we used to know it, this woke version of the left? It's shameful, not a virtue.
Yes they seem to be picking up on these issues, today they are reporting on the Primark changing room debacle, and it shows that these ‘right wingers’ are the ones with common sense.
Unfortunately to left-wing folk in their echo chamber it will be something to be dismissed as right-wing bigotry as they hear nothing about it unless it is in the right-wig media.
Exactly, my left leaning son told me that JK Rowling did say some awful stuff about trans people, but couldn’t tell me exactly what she said that was transphobic, and I actually got him to concede that Maria Forstater didn’t say anything that could be construed as transphobic or transhate! Small wins!
This remains one of the enduring mysteries of the universe. Up there with ‘are we alone in the universe?’ ‘Can you travel faster-than-light?’
Actually finding a TRA who can point to anything JKR has said or written remains a challenge. No-one yet had managed to quote a single sentence of hers in any medium that is transphobic.
Unless of course advocating for women-and-children’s single-sex spaces and safeguarding is determined to be inherently transphobic, but the TRA’s seem unwilling to explicitly state that.
Monty is the best hope for this, but it would be a bit too obvious and the TRA’s would be out for his head if he posted it. And after he publicised #PissGate I reckon he needs to keep his head down for a bit. Keep up with low-level stuff like ‘GC women are literal Nazi’s’ which provides a regular drip-drip of peak-transed folk, but #PissGate peaked millions in one go and he can’t do that too often!
I think it is going to be a real problem, getting young people to see beyond the slogans, and begin to realise that it is not transphobic to support the rights of women, children, lesbians, gays and bisexuals. So many have been brainwashed, as proved by how they cannot go beyond the catchphrases they parrot, and discuss any of the issues intelligently. A middle-aged mother (ex-bi and ex-rad fem, as it happens), could not answer my friend's objections to TIMs in womens's spaces 'oh i don't know, it's difficult, where would the trans go...?' and she would not engage with him on the issue. Not sounding like she had any reasoned counter-argument which could be discussed- but merely a blank-eyed cult member reciting what they have been told to say. So- small wins are very important!
Hen is an amazing woman so selfless in her campaigning, as a result she constantly gets piled on by vile men and sadly women but she takes it all in her stride. She shouldn’t have to. Dignity and safety matter. Thank you Hen 💕
The "good guys" who actively treat people in a hateful manner and refuse to have any empathy at all. It's beyond belief how they can reconcile acting in the way they do.
Give me an overtly bad person over a virtuously smug one. Any day. The virtuous ones, like Karen Power, who are so WRONG but smarmily claim ‘kindness’ and ‘open mindedness’, are really really hard to stomach. It’s just that extra layer of irritation that makes them nearly impossible to take. (Forgive them for they know not what they do.)
That karen power is a vile disgusting pathetic excuse for a politician and should be sacked. How dare she. Wish I could be more eloquent but that would just result in expletives!
Why am I not surprised by the cowardly reaction of a gender cult handmaiden?
Love you, Fred. x
And we love you, Maria x
Thanks, mate. x
If anyone is able to empathise with Fred, it's you.
omg, you're so right. Maria was attacked too.
Dear Fred,
Be well. And thanks. Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)
I almost moved to VT. Please write, post, vlog, blog, and everything you might, mightily. Lesbians helped me so much when my husband declared he was a woman, deserving "mother" status on forms at all times. My lesbian friends, way back in 1995, told me, "No, you do not qualify as a lesbian and he does not either. Thanks. Ute Heggen
btw, is cllr karen just a cowardly hand-maiden... or an actual trans-identified-male?
Imagine being that poor Twix, at least it's giving her two fingers.
PMSL
OMG, that needs to be frontpage news somewhere! That is absolutely a bonkers and unfeeling response to an important and justified question!
Because only the 'conservative media' covers these stories, our concerns have taken on a "severe right leaning narrative" instead of being a human rights issue that applies to everyone.
I wish the left-leaning media would grow a spine and cover this kind of thing.
Instead of covering for this kind of thing.
They're on their knees noshing on "Girl-D".
Yep! Blaming Thatcher is the comeback of someone who has no clue what's going on in 2022. As is shaming "the right" as a whole entity. It's just a crowd pleaser, in my opinion, like a comedian doing an old gag for a cheap laugh.
I showed my friend the Mermaids Barbie/G.I Joe spectrum and I said if *I* said to her that feminine boys are really girls and masculine girls are really boys, she'd give me a seriously hard time for sexism and bigotry. But coming from the left, it's worthy of respect. In fact, it's forward-thinking.
It really does intrigue me how the left will eventually justify the erasure of women's/LGB rights and the harm done to children by this movement.
She reminds me of that sanctimonious piece of work Nicola Coughlan.
I'll second that!
I guess she thinks the wee lesbian from Derry should accept ladydick.
She's on par with Emma Watson for me, and I know that's saying something!
That name should be said in whispered tones. I’m actually typing this with my mouth tightly shut 😡
Apologies - I share your rage!
High 5 !!
Women are garbage to these Social Justice Warriors. Blocking a disabled woman like that... It's despicable! Why would any decent man want to undress her and touch her? Of course, we all know by now that very few TiM's ARE decent men.
I think the trans movement will hit disabled women the hardest. Oh wait, and female prisoners, and gay and autistic kids. I could go on! Just so many casualties...
And hit physically too.
So true :(
This is why genderologists claim they are 'most vulnerable' so they can obscure the needs of those who are vulnerable. And anyone putting up any defence, refutation or barrier to their desires is a bully.
Agreed! When will people get it? Surely them calling a disabled woman transphobic for wanting female care will peak people. It would, except only people in our circles will hear about it. So frustrating that the mainstream media won't touch it with a bargepole. It doesn't represent ordinary people.
They don't care because they don't see themselves in that situation, they are removed. So it's easy to play the mighty trans ally warrior.
I totally agree! Ivory Tower Syndrome...
Blocking is now the default position of the media. They can't answer so they block.
I’m not a fan generally of the Daily Mail as gender criticality aside my politics are the polar opposite, but surely they are one of the few news outlets currently brave enough in either Ireland or the UK to scream this story to high heavens, as it needs to be?!
Absolutely! I have a lot of renewed respect for the right leaning press. The Daily Mail and The Times have been good on these issues. The Telegraph too. And there's a lot of rubbish too but I can weed out a lot of that. I can use this thing called discernment...
And GB News, a right wing news channel? Only if your definition of a right wing news channel is one that platforms left-leaning people to speak all the flippin' time - and then ACTUALLY lets them speak, without scorn. I think people who won't touch these sources with a bargepole need to get over themselves, and pronto! I'm sick and tired of people in their smug little echochambers. Declaring to be on the woke left right now? Not the left as we used to know it, this woke version of the left? It's shameful, not a virtue.
Yes they seem to be picking up on these issues, today they are reporting on the Primark changing room debacle, and it shows that these ‘right wingers’ are the ones with common sense.
Unfortunately to left-wing folk in their echo chamber it will be something to be dismissed as right-wing bigotry as they hear nothing about it unless it is in the right-wig media.
Exactly, my left leaning son told me that JK Rowling did say some awful stuff about trans people, but couldn’t tell me exactly what she said that was transphobic, and I actually got him to concede that Maria Forstater didn’t say anything that could be construed as transphobic or transhate! Small wins!
This remains one of the enduring mysteries of the universe. Up there with ‘are we alone in the universe?’ ‘Can you travel faster-than-light?’
Actually finding a TRA who can point to anything JKR has said or written remains a challenge. No-one yet had managed to quote a single sentence of hers in any medium that is transphobic.
Unless of course advocating for women-and-children’s single-sex spaces and safeguarding is determined to be inherently transphobic, but the TRA’s seem unwilling to explicitly state that.
Monty is the best hope for this, but it would be a bit too obvious and the TRA’s would be out for his head if he posted it. And after he publicised #PissGate I reckon he needs to keep his head down for a bit. Keep up with low-level stuff like ‘GC women are literal Nazi’s’ which provides a regular drip-drip of peak-transed folk, but #PissGate peaked millions in one go and he can’t do that too often!
I think it is going to be a real problem, getting young people to see beyond the slogans, and begin to realise that it is not transphobic to support the rights of women, children, lesbians, gays and bisexuals. So many have been brainwashed, as proved by how they cannot go beyond the catchphrases they parrot, and discuss any of the issues intelligently. A middle-aged mother (ex-bi and ex-rad fem, as it happens), could not answer my friend's objections to TIMs in womens's spaces 'oh i don't know, it's difficult, where would the trans go...?' and she would not engage with him on the issue. Not sounding like she had any reasoned counter-argument which could be discussed- but merely a blank-eyed cult member reciting what they have been told to say. So- small wins are very important!
Hen is an amazing woman so selfless in her campaigning, as a result she constantly gets piled on by vile men and sadly women but she takes it all in her stride. She shouldn’t have to. Dignity and safety matter. Thank you Hen 💕
We have the likes of Panti Bliss , and Hazel Chu , complaining that the poor counsellor is being bullied .
And they think they're the good guys.
The "good guys" who actively treat people in a hateful manner and refuse to have any empathy at all. It's beyond belief how they can reconcile acting in the way they do.
Give me an overtly bad person over a virtuously smug one. Any day. The virtuous ones, like Karen Power, who are so WRONG but smarmily claim ‘kindness’ and ‘open mindedness’, are really really hard to stomach. It’s just that extra layer of irritation that makes them nearly impossible to take. (Forgive them for they know not what they do.)
p.s. I think @CraigLPotter (of Elbow) is back on Twitter, which is great!
No retractions I hope!
Everyone who’s on Twitter should send Karen Power an “I ❤️ JKR” message. Overwhelm her.
According to the rules of Twitter this makes Sarah the winner
That karen power is a vile disgusting pathetic excuse for a politician and should be sacked. How dare she. Wish I could be more eloquent but that would just result in expletives!
Wow. It's (yet another) new low.
We’re still at the digging stage.
Sadly, I agree.